Quotes About Audience

N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He turns within, that here … he may find audience for his griefs. Here he utters his oppressive secrets; … he gives vent to stifled sighs.

Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage of life, while concience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if concience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

INTEGRITY—Did I do my best? EXPECTATION—Did I please my sponsor? RELEVANCE—Did I understand and relate to the audience? VALUE—Did I add value to the people? APPLICATION—Did I give people a game plan? CHANGE—Did I make a difference?

when you find yourself, you find your audience.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively." Talent isn't enough. Experience isn't enough. To lead others, you must be able to communicate well, and connecting is key.

As you communicate with people—whether individuals or groups—ask yourself these questions: Who is my audience? What are their questions? What needs to be accomplished? And how much time do I have? If you want to become a better communicator, become audience oriented.

In general, there are no bad audiences; only bad speakers.

The Constitution guarantees free speech, but it doesn't guarantee listeners.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

The main point is that it's the speaker's responsibility to bring energy to the audience and to work to activate them.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.

I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.